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Interesting thing I discovered reading up on Marine One.... They do not use the MV-22s to land at the White House because the hot exhaust from the turboprops pointed straight down would roast the grass on the South Lawn.

Interesting thing I discovered reading up on Marine One.... They do not use the MV-22s to land at the White House because the hot exhaust from the turboprops pointed straight down would make the lawn look bad, bring the value of the house down, and contribute to global warming.

Why didn't they all just travel on Air Force One? I mean does he really need two Osprey's + Marine One + AF-1 to take himself, his wife and two daughters out to Martha's Vineyard? Let's be real here...no.

Yea, it is gona piss some people off when you go on vacation right after making statements about the "possibility" of having to cut veterans' benefits because of the sequester (that was blamed on the GOP Congress), and then you cost tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money pulling stupid **** like this. It has a lot less to do with the dog, then all the BS going on behind it.

Why didn't they all just travel on Air Force One? I mean does he really need two Osprey's + Marine One + AF-1 to take himself, his wife and two daughters out to Martha's Vineyard? Let's be real here...no.

Yea, it is gona piss some people off when you go on vacation right after making statements about the "possibility" of having to cut veterans' benefits because of the sequester (that was blamed on the GOP Congress), and then you cost tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money pulling stupid **** like this. It has a lot less to do with the dog, then all the BS going on behind it.

Apparently some of you don't manage your own money

Hell why the need for that much security detail, oh wait cause you guys are the only first world nation who have that itch to blast your presidents when they dont fit your agenda.

You guys are the ones trying to create a mountain out of a mole hill, cause heaven forbid a damn dog was placed in the Osprey's cargo hold. As one poster mentioned before, show proof that the V22 used specifically to deliver that dog. It is as simple as that, would that V22 still be used had the dog been in AF1? Most likely yes, given that El Presidente tend to roll deep, you know, cause of your past. So where is this outrage coming from?

What you think that Osprey will not fly if not for the dog? The dog hardly has an impact on the cost of travel of a president.

So you are still trying to seriously argue that they could not have put the dog, his duffel bag of goodies and the net full of basket balls on Marine One? That they really needed another MV-22, with its twelve ton payload, for that tiny amount of cargo? You are not stupid, so I can only conclude you are dissembling.

So you are still trying to seriously argue that they could not have put the dog, his duffel bag of goodies and the net full of basket balls on Marine One? That they really needed another MV-22, with its twelve ton payload, for that tiny amount of cargo? You are not stupid, so I can only conclude you are dissembling.

No, I am arguing it is a none issue where they placed the god damned dog, because that V22 Osprey would have flown, since you know other posters already pointed out that the SS detail was on board the same aircraft.